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Emanuel Blames Trump For Smollett Controversy, 'Toxic Environment', 'Sit On The Sidelines'
Fox News ^ | 3-29-2019 | Barnini Chakraborty

Posted on 03/29/2019 8:17:39 AM PDT by blam

CHICAGO – Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Thursday emphatically urged President Trump to butt out of the ongoing drama over embattled "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett as he blamed him for creating a "toxic environment" where someone would allegedly fabricate such an attack.

“My recommendation is the president go to Opening Day baseball, sit on the sidelines and stay out of this," Emanuel told a group of reporters.

The mayor called Chicago a "Trump-free zone" and blamed the president for creating a "toxic" and "hate-filled" environment that allowed Smollett to think he could get away with faking a hate crime.

“Let me be clear about something. The only reason Jussie Smollett thought he could take advantage of a hoax about a hate crime is because of the environment, the toxic environment that Donald Trump created,” Emanuel said.

“This is a president who drew a moral equivalency between people who are trying to perpetuate bigotry and those who are trying to fight bigotry.

As somebody who has started his own journey in politics fighting the neo-Nazis in Skokie and then down to Marquette Park, President Trump should literally take his politics, move it aside.

The mayor continued: “He's created a toxic environment and now he's created a toxic, vicious cycle in my view. The only reason Jussie Smollett thought he could get away with this hoax about a hate crime is because of the environment President Trump created

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blamegame; boogedyboogedy; chicago; emanuel; gaslighting; rahm; smollett; trump
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Trump created a toxic environment? When 93% of news stories are against him....he has very little control of the 'environment.'
1 posted on 03/29/2019 8:17:39 AM PDT by blam
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That didnt take long. Orange Man’s fault.


2 posted on 03/29/2019 8:19:21 AM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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Jussie Smollett Case: A Slime Trump Exercise From The Get-Go, Varney Says

The key to Jussie Smollett’sOpens a New Window. vicious hoax is being conveniently ignored. He was trying to link racial violence to President TrumpOpens a New Window. .

He deliberately presented himself as a Trump victim. That’s why the media reacted with such glee when he made his first report. A black man, attacked by Trump supporters … guaranteed to make headlines in the Trump-hating media.

He knew what he was doing. He knew that by blaming the president, he would gain maximum support. And hey, if anyone challenged him they could be dismissed as racists. For a couple of days, it worked. He had given the Trump haters a field day. Never forget: This started as a slime Trump exercise.

Fast forward to the present: Jussie Smollett got away with it! Charges dismissed. The record sealed.

Why did he get away with it? Because the anti-Trump elites rode to his rescue. They couldn't let their man go down.

This is being reported in the media as a legal battle. In public, it’s all legalisms. But it’s really a cover-up. Smollett got caught in a vicious Trump-hating hoax and the Trump-hating elites got him off and sealed the records so we won't find out just how far these people are prepared to go to insult our president.

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3 posted on 03/29/2019 8:21:33 AM PDT by blam
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I knew it. He was pulling his punches towards Smallett. He thereby gets into the news and takes some attention off Muller. Then he pulls the switcheroo and focuses on Thrump derangement. The mayor still has his foot into operative national politics. How many people were murdered there last week?


4 posted on 03/29/2019 8:21:38 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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It sounds to me like he is Hiding something and doesn’t want further scrutiny. I would bet $10 Emanuel was orchestrating this dismissal behind the scenes.


5 posted on 03/29/2019 8:22:11 AM PDT by eyeamok
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President Trump's fault!

LOL, literally. I mean this is nothing more than the childish excuse "he made me do it" repackaged in a few fancy sentences. Rahm is a frigging joke.

6 posted on 03/29/2019 8:22:15 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps ( Be ready!)
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Tiny Dancer speaks.

L


7 posted on 03/29/2019 8:22:40 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending it is.)
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This is the equivalent of blaming the wet sidewalk for the rain.


8 posted on 03/29/2019 8:24:05 AM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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Chicongo is as toxic an environment as exists in this country.

Democrats made it so.


9 posted on 03/29/2019 8:26:35 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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Can’t fix your city..which was screwed up long before Trump became President.
Can’t fix your state...even though you have raised taxes through the roof.
Can’t fix your screwed up..criminal.. residents..

blame Trump


10 posted on 03/29/2019 8:30:50 AM PDT by Leep (It's.. (W)all or nothing..!)
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Let’s see. Trump wants to secure the borders against Mexicans and Central Americans, and that causes poor Jussie to hire two Nigerians to fake a crime against a gay black man.

Got it.


11 posted on 03/29/2019 8:31:04 AM PDT by LydiaLong
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These fake “hate-crime” hoaxes have been going on for decades. They are the result of the “blame whitey for everything” environment in the media and on campus, which is supported by the democrat party. Hardly Trump’s fault given the long, twisted history of these hoaxes.


12 posted on 03/29/2019 8:31:52 AM PDT by euram
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That toxic environment was created by Cook County State Attorney Kim Foxx, who seems to serve only the criminals. She just lets them all go free ... this wasn’t the first time.


13 posted on 03/29/2019 8:31:54 AM PDT by Krosan
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"The mayor called Chicago a "Trump-free zone" and blamed the president for creating a "toxic" and "hate-filled" environment that allowed Smollett to think he could get away with faking a hate crime."

Well. That is leftism in a nutshell. Both from Scum Rahm's point of view, and probably from Pussbag Smollett's point of view.

They were driven to it, dontcha know.

14 posted on 03/29/2019 8:32:21 AM PDT by rlmorel (If racial attacks were as common as the Left wants you to think, they wouldn't have to make them up.)
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Funny how the Left blames the toxic environment it created with its bullshit lies on Trump.


15 posted on 03/29/2019 8:34:55 AM PDT by chris37 (Monday, March 25 2019 is Maga Day!)
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Rahm: “Do as I say, not as I do”


16 posted on 03/29/2019 8:37:41 AM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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..The only reason Jussie Smollett thought he could get away with this hoax

Emanual knows it was a fake

17 posted on 03/29/2019 8:39:22 AM PDT by SGCOS
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Yep - the media and the left (truly one and the same) created the toxic environment out of thin air, lies, and non-stop spin based on the false narrative of the left.

When “journalists” fail to challenge outlandish claims by people and other media types to smear the President you get a mob.


18 posted on 03/29/2019 8:42:51 AM PDT by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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Rahm is back.


19 posted on 03/29/2019 8:48:44 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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"Watch me, Faggots!"
20 posted on 03/29/2019 8:50:17 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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